Authors' Biographies

Jessica Barfield, PhD is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky and does research on the topic of human-robot interaction and the design of increasingly smart computational technologies.

Woodrow Barfield, PhD, JD, LLM, has interests in wearable computing and augmented reality, human enhancement technologies, the computational body, and the law as applied to algorithms and smart systems.

Eleonora Bassi is a philosopher, a law expert, and a poet. She is co-Editor with Ugo Pagallo of the book series "Tecnologie emergenti e diritto" (Mimesis Pub.). Her publications are in the field of legal theory and technology, data governance, European IT policy, digital innovation for the public sector, privacy law, aviation law. Currently she is at the Nexa Center for Internet & Society (Politecnico di Torino), and is External Fellow at the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group (San Luis Obispo, California Polytechnic State University, CA.).

Alexander Blanchard is a Senior Researcher in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Programme at SIPRI. His work focuses on issues related to the development, use and control of military applications of artificial intelligence. His current work focuses on the control of autonomy in weapon systems as well as organizational practices for the governance of AI. Before joining SIPRI, Alexander was the Dstl Digital Ethics Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London.

Ioana Bratu is an Assistant Professor in space law and AI governance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is the Co-Director of the Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute, an Affiliate of Université Paris Cité, and the Founder of the AI8Space Law Society.

Roger Brownsword, who is a leading scholar in the field of law, regulation, and technology, has professorial appointments in Law at King's College London and Bournemouth University. His most recent books are: Technology, Humans and Discontent with Law: The Quest for Better Governance (2024) and The Future of Governance: A Radical Introduction to Law (2025).

Mira Burri is Professor of International Economic and Internet Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. She teaches international intellectual property, media, internet and trade law. Mira's current research interests are in the areas of digital trade, data protection and data governance. Mira is the principal investigator of the project 'Trade Law 4.0' (ERC Consolidator Grant 2021-2026). She consults the European Parliament, the WTO, UNESCO, ASEAN, the WEF and others on issues of the regulation of the data-driven economy. Mira is also a member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Pompeu Casanovas is Research Professor on AI, Law and Ethics at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the Spanish National Research Council (IIIA-CSIC). He also is Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University (Australia). His research is focused on legal compliance, AI governance, regulatory models, and legal ecosystems.

Federico Casolari is a full professor of European Union Law at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, where he teaches EU law and EU Constitutional Law. He is currently Head of the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna (Dean, School of Law) and serves as Chair of the Law Deans Group - The Guild Network (2024-2026). Author of some 100 international publications, his research interests include, among others, EU constitutional law, the Union's external relations, and its digital strategy.

Jacopo Ciani is research associate at the University of Turin, School of Law, fellow at the Information Society Law Center of the University of Milan and adjunct professor at ESCP Business School. He teaches Legal Informatics but his research interests embrace philosophy of law, data protection, intellectual property, advertising, AI and sustainability.

Despina Chatzimanoli, LL.M. is Senior Legal Expert- Team Coordinator at the Legal Unit of the European Banking Authority (EBA) where she advises, among other topics, on digital finance. She also worked at the EBA's predecessor (CEBS) and the UK Financial Services Authority and holds a Ph.D. from the EUI Law department.

Simon Chesterman is David Marshall Professor of Law and Vice Provost (Educational Innovation) at the National University of Singapore, where he is also the founding Dean of NUS College. He serves as Senior Director of AI Governance at AI Singapore and Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law. His books include We, the Robots? Regulating Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of the Law (CUP, 2021).

Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci is Associate Professor and Associate Director at the Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law (CeBIL), University of Copenhagen. He is also Inter-CeBIL Research Affiliate at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. His research interests are the legal issues involved in disruptive innovation technologies and biomedicine.

Pietro Dunn holds a PhD degree in "Law, Science and Technology" at the University of Bologna and University of Luxembourg, focusing on hate speech governance in the digital landscape. He currently works as a public servant for the criminal section of the first-instance Tribunal of Torino.

Massimo Durante is Full Professor in Philosophy of Law and Legal Informatics at the Department of Law, University of Turin. He is Vice-director of the Joint International Doctoral (Phd) program in "Law, Science, and Technology" at the University of Bologna and Faculty Fellow of the Nexa Center for Internet and Society of Turin. Author of several books and papers in Italian, English and French, he is Editor-in-chief of the Philosophical Studies Series, Springer. His last book, Computational Power. The Impact of ICT on Law, Society and Knowledge, has been published by Routledge, 2021.

Mark Fenwick is a Professor of International Business Law at the Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University, in Fukuoka, Japan. His expertise lies at the intersection of business regulation, corporate compliance, and legal frameworks for innovation.

Luciano Floridi is the Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center and Professor in the Cognitive Science Program, Yale University; Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at Bologna University. Among his many awards, in 2022 he was made Knight of the Grand Cross OMRI for his foundational work in philosophy.

Philipp Hacker holds the Research Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society at the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS) at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). For his work, he received several academic prizes, such as the 2020 Science Award of the German Foundation for Law and Computer Science. Philipp co-founded and co-leads the International Expert Consortium on the Regulation, Economics and Computer Science of AI (RECSAI). Recently, he has been appointed General Editor of the novel, 11-volume AI and Society series published from 2025-2027 by Oxford University Press. He is a member of the Task Force AI Governance for the German Federal Government and also co-chairs the Working Group on "AI Liability" for the European Parliament.

Dara Hallinan is a legal academic working at FIZ Karlsruhe. His focus is on the interaction between law, new technologies - particularly ICT and biotech - and society. He is also programme director for the annual Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference, editor of the bi-weekly Data Protection Insider, and author of the OUP book, 'Protecting Genetic Privacy in Biobanking through Data Protection Law'.

Tatsuhiko Inatani is a professor at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Law. He specializes in legal governance of advanced science and technology. He employs an interdisciplinary approach, applying knowledge from adjacent fields such as philosophy, cognitive science, and economics. He has served on various expert committees of METI, the Digital Agency, and the Japanese Cabinet Office.

Ellen Lefley is Senior Lawyer at JUSTICE, a cross-party law reform charity and the UK section of the International Commission of Jurists. Ellen leads JUSTICE's work on artificial intelligence, human rights and the law. Ellen is a qualified barrister and previously practiced across family, civil, and criminal law.

Hideyuki ("Yuki") Matsumi is a PhD candidate/researcher at the Research Group on Law Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Member of the New York Bar. At the narrowest level, he is currently focusing on a pair of issues: (1) predictions or the temporal dimension of privacy, and (2) generated personal data.

Francesca Mazzi is working as a lecturer in AI, innovation, and law at Brunel University London, where she is also the Director of the Postgraduate Certificate in Intellectual Property. She has a double Ph.D. from Queen Mary University of London and Maastricht University on the topic "patentability of AI-generated inventions: a case study on pharma". She was a post-doc researcher at University of Oxford on the use of Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals.